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mitchy at 02:15am on 14/08/2010 under 30 days of movies meme
mitchy at 02:15am on 14/08/2010 under 30 days of movies meme13. First 18 certificate movie you saw (legally or otherwise) at the cinema?
I was a very good Mitchy and never tried to sneak into a cinema. We didn't have a cinema in our town anyway, there was only the 2 screen cinema in Luton. By the time I was 18, there were multi-screens available but not where I lived. (Actually, I still don't live in a town with a proper cinema, I have to go to either Stevenage or Hatfield). Anyway, all that curtailed any desire to sneak in anywhere; if I was spending hard earned pocket money on bus fares, dammit, I wanted a guaranteed movie at the end of it! Besides, back then, 18 certificates were really movies I didn't want to see - blood, gore, sexual violence etc. Most of those movies then would be re-certified downwards today, I'm fairly sure.
Long story short, the first 18 cert I saw was legal and it was Fatal Attraction. Scared the pants off me at the end! Good movie though, I really liked it. Heh, it caused a fair amount of discussion too, as I recall. Nowdays I'm fairly sure no-one would bat an eyelash. :)
I was a very good Mitchy and never tried to sneak into a cinema. We didn't have a cinema in our town anyway, there was only the 2 screen cinema in Luton. By the time I was 18, there were multi-screens available but not where I lived. (Actually, I still don't live in a town with a proper cinema, I have to go to either Stevenage or Hatfield). Anyway, all that curtailed any desire to sneak in anywhere; if I was spending hard earned pocket money on bus fares, dammit, I wanted a guaranteed movie at the end of it! Besides, back then, 18 certificates were really movies I didn't want to see - blood, gore, sexual violence etc. Most of those movies then would be re-certified downwards today, I'm fairly sure.
Long story short, the first 18 cert I saw was legal and it was Fatal Attraction. Scared the pants off me at the end! Good movie though, I really liked it. Heh, it caused a fair amount of discussion too, as I recall. Nowdays I'm fairly sure no-one would bat an eyelash. :)
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